We’d like to introduce you to the newest addition to our children’s collection: Whazoodles. Whazoodles are made by Playaway, the same company that makes Launchpads and Playaway Audiobooks.
Whazoodles are similar to Tonie Boxes and Yoto Players, they offer stories, songs, podcasts and more on an easy-to-use speaker. No Wi-Fi, downloads, or extra pieces necessary.
Each Whazoodle has a different theme. You can find a complete list on our online catalog or drop-in to browse today.
Bestselling author Joseph Finder will discuss his new thriller, The Oligarch’s Daughter, in conversation with bestselling author Lisa Gardner, in this installment of “Author Hour in Massachusetts.”
Please register here. In collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library. Thanks to the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library.
RECORDING NOTE: This program is being recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
If interested, please click HERE to purchase a copy of this book from the event’s bookstore partner, Wellesley Books. Book sales will help support future virtual author events.
About the book: The Oligarch’s Daughterhe : From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spycraft of The Americans. Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who can seemingly predict his every move. Six years ago, Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana—unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch and the object of considerable interest from several U.S. intelligence agencies. Now, to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government.
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Explore the enchanting city of Siena, one of Tuscany’s most celebrated destinations, rich in history, art, and vibrant traditions rooted in its 17 districts, or “contrade,” and the world-famous Palio di Siena. Join a virtual walking tour and travel back in time to uncover the city’s medieval glory. Guided by Patrizia, a local expert guide, experience the highlights of this historic gem, including the iconic Piazza del Campo and the breathtaking Siena Cathedral.
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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
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Bestselling author Christopher Farnsworth will discuss his new thriller, Robert B. Parker’s Buried Secrets: A Jesse Stone Novel, in this installment of “Author Hour in Massachusetts.”
Please register here. In collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library. Thanks to the Friends of the Bedford Public Library.
RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording within 48 hours of the program.
If interested, please click HERE to purchase a copy of this book from the event’s bookstore partner, Wellesley Books. Book sales will help support future virtual author events.
About Buried Secrets: Chief of Police Jesse Stone is on his way home from a long shift when a call comes in for a welfare check on an elderly resident of the wealthy seaside town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Inside a house packed with junk and trash is a man’s dead body. It’s a sad, lonely end, but nothing criminal . . . until Jesse finds the photos of murder victims strewn around the corpse, on top of a treasure trove of $2 million in cash. Jesse takes on the case and finds a trail leading to an aging mobster who will do whatever it takes to keep the past from coming to light. Before long, Jesse has a price on his head as hit men converge on Paradise to take back the cash and destroy any remaining evidence. But the real danger might be coming from inside his own department. Jesse Stone must unearth the truth buried under the wreckage of a dead man’s life . . . before he winds up in the ground himself.
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Join tour guide Jimmy Sotomayor for a live tour of Cusco, Peru. Cusco is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Western Hemisphere. Formerly the capital of the extensive Inca empire, it retains much of its highly crafted early stone architecture, which is typically preserved in the foundations and lower stories of Spanish colonial structures. Located high in the Andes Mountains, Cuzco was designated a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage site in 1983.
Please register here. In collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library. Thanks to the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library.
RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
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Bestselling author Carter Wilson will discuss his new thriller, Tell Me What You Did, in conversation with bestselling author Wendy Walker, in this installment of “Author Hour in Massachusetts.”
About Tell Me What You Did: Poe Webb, host of a popular true crime podcast, invites people to confess crimes they’ve committed to her audience anonymously. She can’t guarantee the police won’t come after her “guests,” but her show grants simultaneous anonymity and instant fame―a potent combination that’s proven difficult to resist. After an episode recording, Poe usually erases both criminal and crime from her mind. But when a strange and oddly familiar man appears on her show, Poe is forced to take a second look. Not only because he claims to be her mother’s murderer from years ago, but because Poe knows something no one else does. Her mother’s murderer is dead. Poe killed him. From the USA Today bestselling author of The Dead Girl in 2A and The New Neighbor comes a chilling new thriller that forces the question: are murderers always the bad guys?
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RECORDING NOTE: This program is being recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
If interested, please click HERE to purchase a copy of this book from the event’s bookstore partner, Wellesley Books. Book sales will help support future virtual author events.
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Eliot Stein traveled the globe searching for remarkable people who are preserving some of our most extraordinary cultural rites. In Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive, Stein introduces readers to a man saving the secret ingredient in Japan’s 700-year-old original soy sauce recipe. In Italy, he learns how to make the world’s rarest pasta from one of the only women alive who knows how to make it. In India, he discovers a family rumored to make a mysterious metal mirror believed to reveal your truest self. From shadowing Scandinavia’s last night watchman to meeting a 27th-generation West African griot to tracking down Cuba’s last official cigar factory “readers” more than a century after they spearheaded the fight for Cuban independence, Stein uncovers an almost lost world.
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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
If interested, please click HERE to purchase a copy of this book from the event’s bookstore partner, Wellesley Books. Book sales will help support future virtual author events.
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Bestselling author Erika Swyler will discuss her new dystopian novel, We Lived on the Horizon, in this installment of “Author Hour in Massachusetts.”
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About Erika: Erika Swyler is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Light from Other Stars and The Book of Speculation. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Catapult, LitHub, The New York Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, she lives on Long Island, New York, with her husband and a mischievous house rabbit.
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Bestselling author Thomas Perry will discuss his new thriller, Pro Bono, in this installment of “Author Hour in Massachusetts.”
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RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.
About Thomas: Thomas Perry is the bestselling author of over twenty novels, including Murder Book; the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series; The Old Man, which was adapted into the FX television series starring Jeff Bridges, and The Butcher’s Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California.
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Dr. Katherine Ramsland recounts her most memorable interactions with serial killers throughout her her life, describing how it shaped her career in forensic psychology. A Pied Piper, two Coed Killers, a Candy Man’s handyman, and BTK, among others, have left their marks on her research and writing, both fiction and nonfiction.
Please register here. In collaboration with the Ashland Public Library. Thanks to the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library.
RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 of the program.
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